Everything always goes wrong in the Metrodome for the White Sox.  I do not understand why, but we always seem to get hosed in this building.  A bad call early on where Mark Buehrle had Carlos Gomez picked off at second base was called safe and later scored on the soft grounder by Joe Mauer.  If that call was made the right way the score would have still been 2 to 1.  Next inning Griffey hits the home run and we would be tied.  It just leaves a bad taste in your mouth when a umpire blows an obvious call when so much is on the line and I am sure there will be an apology from the umpires, because everyone with a good eye could clearly see that Gomez was out.

Regardless of the call the Sox lost 3 to 2 and we are only a half game up on the Twins, or if you just want to say we have one less loss than the Twins, if that sounds better.  The pressure now falls on Gavin Floyd as the game three starter later today.  We know this guy is tough when he won in New York Stadium and now he must do it again in the one place where the Twins have just owned us in every category.  

Floyd can pitch his heart out and we will still lose if we can not get more consistent offense.  Home runs are nice, when we have runners on, and when we have a man on with less than 1 out you got to get that guy in because you know 90 percent of the time when it happens to us they score.  The fundamentals have got to be perfect in this next game if the Sox want to leave today still in first place.

The key to this next game will be if the Sox can possibly get an early lead and let Floyd pitch ahead and put some pressure on the Twins.  The first two games we have fallen behind each game and have not jumped back ahead and an early manufactured run or home run can provide that help Floyd can use.  It is amazing that our first place lead now lays on the shoulders of one of the most inexperienced pitcher’s on our staff.  However, Floyd has proven before that experience means nothing to him as he leads the Sox in wins on the pitching staff.

The 2008 White Sox can either win this game and come home with a chance to clinch at home or they can lose and become scoreboard watchers and fans of the Kansas City Royals.  The choice is easy just win and everything else will be much easier, but as we have seen this year, nothing has been apparently easy for these White Sox.   I still believe we can do this and every Sox fan out there should not give up yet, as these guys have bounced back from bad losses.  This team has not been swept since the Chicago Cubs did it back in June.